Children Of Men

I watched the film Children of Men starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine. Its set in Britain 2027 and no children have been born for 18 years, they just stopped having successful pregnancies. The borders are closed and Immigrants are treated like scum who are rounded up and deported. Clive Owen's character "Theo" is asked by Moore his former lover to escort a pregnant woman to safety. Moore is part of an extremist group called "The Fishes." I'm not a big Owen fan, he plays wooden feelingless characters but this one fit him.
He and Moore's character lost their son during the flu outbreak of 2008 so his life went to shit, hes in a crappy office job narrowly getting blown up in a coffee shop by the fishes, Islamists or the government who knows? he has to walk past pitiful refugees in cages and not let it bother him, he has become insensitive on purpose.
Michael Caine plays an old hippy friend who smokes pot and invites people to pull his finger so he can fart, he is what keeps Theo sane, the only bright spot in his life.

When Moore, a wanted terrorist comes back into Theo's life he wants more, she does too but they skirt around it because of the painful past, they flirt and bicker and the love is still there but that's it.
Kee the pregnant girl, a hippy midwife, Theo, Moore and another male terrorist are in a mini van, the camera work in such a small space and the interaction of the characters is incredible, you have to watch the making of it to really appreciate it .

Moore gets killed and Theo walks off to the side crouches down by a tree and cries out of sight from the others, then someone calls him and all of a sudden hes calm and back to normal, that shows a great insight into the character. Owen shows he has great body language when he lets himself go, I can now relate to Theo as I have been there myself.

The director Alfonso Cuaron does really long takes following the actors. A lot to take into consideration and choreograph, you notice it in one scene when the camera gets splattered with blood and the amount of time it stays on the lens before Theo looks up a stairwell and its cut.

I love that style and the grey grainy colour they give the near future that is quite believable. The funny thing is that its no longer the world's oldest person that makes the news its the world's youngest person instead.

Based on a book by P.D. James its a good film to me because of how its made and the scary idea of a near future that could easily happen. The film does turn into a running through buildings getting shot at by everyone free for all which to me is a cop out that many movies use to tie things up and when the baby is born it goes a little like Jesus being born thing.

A breakthrough character was Syd a prison guard. A small powerful man with a thick Scottish accent who was quite nuts, he talked about himself in the third person and was scary in the sense that he was unpredictable.

A good film over all and I'm glad I bought it even before I saw it.